{"id":241200153,"date":"2012-08-23T16:02:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=241200153"},"modified":"2012-08-23T16:02:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:02:33","slug":"experimental-safety-measures-on-va-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=241200153","title":{"rendered":"Experimental safety measures on Va. road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: I love the idea of extra measures to get drivers to stop and yield to trail traffic  (like they are legally obligated to do.) I would love it if Maryland also took up the attitude of &quot;Let&#8217;s observe the actual behavior.&quot; instead of through some sort of hocus-pocus under the guise of engineering (that time and time again it has been shown that a lot of so called cause and effect &quot;facts&quot; are just plain wrong or at least more complicated then generally assumed.) ]<br \/>\n*************************************************************************************************<br \/>\nWTOP<br \/>\nWASHINGTON &#8211; The zigzag white lines on Belmont Ridge Road in Ashburn are supposed to warn drivers of the popular W&amp;OD bike crossing.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHowever, Dittberner also says drivers are slowing down and yielding more. A VDOT study, conducted by the department&#8217;s research arm, affirms his statement.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtop.com\/159\/2977309\/Debate-on-experimental-safety-measures-on-Va-road\">https:\/\/www.wtop.com\/159\/2977309\/Debate-on-experimental-safety-measures-on-Va-road<\/a><br \/>\n(This link also has a picture of the treatment.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: I love the idea of extra measures to get drivers to stop and yield to trail traffic (like they are legally obligated to do.) I would love it if Maryland also took up the attitude of &quot;Let&#8217;s observe the actual behavior.&quot; instead of through some sort of hocus-pocus under the guise of engineering &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=241200153\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Experimental safety measures on Va. road&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241200153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241200153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241200153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241200153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241200153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241200153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241200153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}